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The Downstairs Dance Floor
Taylor Graham
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Description for The Downstairs Dance Floor
Paperback. Contains poems about family survivors - a father and mother widowed early, who in a second marriage made the best of their losses; the only child of that marriage; a distant uncle who devoted his life to music; a widowed stepfather in his declining years; others who, when the time comes, look for meaning in living alone. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 4. Weight in Grams: 104.
The poems in ""The Downstairs Dance Floor"" are inhabited by family survivors - a father and mother widowed early, who in a second marriage made the best of their losses; the only child of that marriage; a distant uncle who devoted his life to music; a widowed stepfather in his declining years; others who, when the time comes, look for meaning in living alone. The other main character in this collection is, of course, Death. Using old family photos, letters, and anecdotes from friends and family members, the poet tries to imagine the unsatisfied dreams of those no longer able ... Read more
The poems in ""The Downstairs Dance Floor"" are inhabited by family survivors - a father and mother widowed early, who in a second marriage made the best of their losses; the only child of that marriage; a distant uncle who devoted his life to music; a widowed stepfather in his declining years; others who, when the time comes, look for meaning in living alone. The other main character in this collection is, of course, Death. Using old family photos, letters, and anecdotes from friends and family members, the poet tries to imagine the unsatisfied dreams of those no longer able ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Texas Review Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
Huntsville, United States
ISBN
9781881515944
SKU
V9781881515944
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Ref
99-1
About Taylor Graham
TAYLOR GRAHAM earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. She has been a volunteer search-and-rescue dog handler for the past thirty years; she and her husband, Hatch, have responded to hundreds of missions with their trained German Shepherds.
Reviews for The Downstairs Dance Floor
The Downstairs Dance Floor is a collection that moves a cast of characters - mother, father, step-father, child - from old photographs to lives tenuously clung to in contemporary nursing homes. Graham's compassion for her elders bespeaks her own sense of mortality, and every poem here captures the exact details - the position of hands in a snapshot or the ... Read more